Hot-water bottle.



Nb. 738,544. PATENTED SEPT. 8, 1903.

F. n. JONES. HOT WATER BOTTLE.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 22, 1902. I

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UNITED STATES Patented September 8, 1903.

PATENT OF ICE.

FREDERICK H. JONES, OF WAKEFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO TYER RUBBER (10., OF ANDOVER, MASSACHUSETTS.

HOT-WATER BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 738,544, dated September 8, 1903. V

Application filed October 22,1902 Serial No. 128,228. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK I-LJONES, of Wakefield, county of Middlesex, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in IIot-Water Bottles, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanyin g drawings, is a specification,like characters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention relates to hot-water bottles, and has for its object to provide the stopper thereof with improved meansfor retaining it I in connection with the bottle, so that it will not be lost.

My invention consists in a hot-water bottle having a stopper provided at its lower end with a headed stud, a retaining device for said stopper, consisting of a chain which extends into the bottle, a clip connected to one end of said chain, comprising a plurality of arms having inturned ends which engage said headed stud, and a compressible retainer connected to the opposite end of said chain.

Figure 1 shows in vertical section the upper end portion ot a hot-water bottle and stopper and in elevation a retaining device for said stopper embodying this invention. Fig. 2 is a detail of the stopper, showing particularly the means for attaching the chain thereto. Fig. 3 is a detail of the means for attaching the chain to the stopper, and Fig. 4 is a detail showing the blank from which is formed the means for attaching the chain to the stopper. (1 represents the hot-water bottle, which is of any usual or suitable construction, 12 being the neck thereof and c the stopper. At the lower end of the stopperc a headed stud c is employed for the purpose of securely hold- I the opening at the neck of the bottle when ing the washer c andto said headed stud my improved retaining device is attached.

The retaining device consists,essentially,of a chain d of any suitable length, having at its lower end a compressible retainer which, as herein shown, consists of a two-armed springacting yoke d of suitable size to pass through properly compressed, but which may be withdrawn with considerable difficulty. The. chain is attached to the lower end of the stopper by a clip, which consists of a plate having a plurality of arms e, which are upturned and inturned to form hooks,which engage the head of the stud c, and said plate has two apertures through it to form an eye, through which the endmost link of the chain passes.

Having thus described my inventiomwhat I 5 5 claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A hot-water bottle having a stopper provided at its lower end with a headed stud, a retaining device for said stopper consisting of a chain which extends into the bottle, a clip connected to one end of said chain comprising a plurality of arms having inturned ends which engage said headed stud and a compressible retainer connected to the opposite end of said chain, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

B. J. NoYns, D. H. HARRIMAN. 

